French Fries in Pittsburgh

27 restaurants in Pittsburgh list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is Napoli Pizzeria at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $10.99 at Pizza Parma Downtown, so the two ends of the list are $6.99 apart, which is 175% more for the same dish. Of the 27 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track french fries in 498 other areas and compare them all on french fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.49 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 294 of the 498. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Big Tony's Pizza II in Chicago, IL, and the highest best price is $7.50 in Seaford, NY. The nearest area with it is Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Pittsburgh? Napoli Pizzeria, at $4.00 on 2006 Murray Ave. The same dish reaches $10.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.99.

What should french fries cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 27 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 9 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.99 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.